Sharp diary 1918 page 139. Thursday 16 May 1918 - Washington
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Thursday 16th of May 1918
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Breakfasted at the Chancery Inn with Bradley and then after a little shopping returned to the hotel and wrote several letters including a long one to Mrs Storrows in reply to her sending me the subs[criptions] she had collected on my behalf for the collection — [….?]. Also a long one to Constance and several others. Shane Leslie called for me and we went out and lunched — at his request — at a steam table restaurant, a kind of cafeteria which if rather crude in many ways was at least quiet. We sat, smoked and chatted there for 2 hours or more. After tea we met Bradley and together trudged out to the Rock Creek Cemetery to see the famous St Gaudens statue.1 It was a terrible journey in a very crowded hot car and when we arrived it took us a full hour to find the statue. But it was worth taking trouble to see as it is fine. It was 8 p.m. before we got back and we had difficulty in finding a place open so had to fall back upon the Steam Table place once again! Then to Bradley’s office where we met some of his friends — not very interesting ones to tell the truth — and to them we sang some of our songs. Bradley is beginning to get hold of the songs and to feel them musically. A visit to the drugstore moistened our dried throats & then to bed.Location
USA : Washington DC [38.8951118,-77.0363658]
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